Phew, Josephine
you're trying to say that economic opportunists have sewn their lips
together?
Maybe there's a reality that evades taxpayer's eyes.
Best
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Printmaker" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: Silence
> Alison Croggon wrote:
> >
> > At 9:43 AM +0100 21/1/2002, Martin J. Walker wrote:
> >
> > > the main effect on me of the whole scene is nausea &
> > > sadness.
> >
> > Yes, me too. But that's compounded by a feeling of
> > furious shame.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > A
>
>
> Being Devil's Advocate here.
>
> This is precisely the response they are counting on. Note
> the careful priming of the children re what to say to the
> media.
>
> You are being manipulated.
>
> They have paid considerable sums of money to be smuggled in,
> around $AUD10,000-20,000 each I have heard. With these funds
> they could have re-established themselves in Pakistan in
> luxury and kept the freedom they argue for. They are where
> they are because of their own actions, we are masters of our
> own destiny. They are not 'victims' of the smugglers, they
> were not kidnapped, they paid their way. One woman I saw
> interviewed said her husband was working in Victoria and had
> sent the funds over to get her brought in!
>
> In the meantime they are being fed and housed and protected
> from harm all at the expense of the Australian public purse.
>
> I feel for the refugees who are walking over the mountains
> through snow and starving, or the ones in Africa whose city
> is covered in Lava. Not these opportunists.
>
> I do agree that they should be processed faster, two years
> is too long for my taxes to be supporting them. We could
> have run a university and provided hecs free education for
> our own struggling youth with what they have cost us so far.
> Or built a hospital, or provided aid where its really
> needed.
>
> Food for thought.
>
> Josephine
> (trying to bring some balance to the argument)
>
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